{"query": "Easton: Curious arts", "count": 16, "results": [{"id": "card_n_bf1728699053", "title": "Easton: Curious arts", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Acts 19:19), magical arts; jugglery practised by the Ephesian conjurers. Ephesus was noted for its wizard and the “Ephesian spells;” i.e., charms or scraps of parchment written over with certain form"}, {"id": "card_c_8819c1e4c2da", "title": "Easton: Curious arts cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 19:19 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_6be0c554f871", "title": "Easton: Fowler", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The arts of, referred to Ps. 91:3; 124:7; Prov. 6:5; Jer. 5:26; Hos. 9:8; Ezek. 17:20; Eccl. 9:12. Birds of all kinds abound in Palestine, and the capture of these for the table and for other uses for"}, {"id": "card_n_9cd847459194", "title": "Easton: Carve", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The arts of engraving and carving were much practised among the Jews. They were practised in connection with the construction of the tabernacle and the temple (Ex. 31:2, 5; 35:33; 1 Kings 6:18, 35; Ps"}, {"id": "card_n_90277a772ad1", "title": "Easton: Physician", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Asa, afflicted with some bodily malady, “sought not to the Lord but to the physicians” (2 Chr. 16:12). The “physicians” were those who “practised heathen arts of magic, disavowing recognized methods o"}, {"id": "card_n_098bfecbdf2c", "title": "Easton: Soothsayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so called (Josh. 13:22; Heb. kosem, a “diviner,” as rendered 1 Sam. 6:2; rendered “prudent,” Isa. 3:2). In Isa. 2:6 and Micah 5:12 (Heb. yone"}, {"id": "card_n_0150bf54726b", "title": "Easton: Enchantments", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The rendering of Hebrew latim_ or _lehatim, which means “something covered,” “muffled up;” secret arts, tricks (Ex. 7:11, 22; 8:7, 18), by which the Egyptian magicians imposed on the credulity of"}, {"id": "card_n_18d0b29ebe2e", "title": "Easton: Girdle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hagor, a girdle of any kind worn by soldiers (1 Sam. 18:4; 2 Sam. 20:8; 1 Kings 2:5; 2 Kings 3:21) or women (Isa. 3:24). (2.) Heb. ‘ezor, something “bound,” worn by prophets (2 Kings 1:8; Je"}, {"id": "card_n_96d9dee329be", "title": "Easton: Ephod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Something girt, a sacred vestment worn originally by the high priest (Ex. 28:4), afterwards by the ordinary priest (1 Sam. 22:18), and characteristic of his office (1 Sam. 2:18, 28; 14:3). It was worn"}, {"id": "card_n_f85d77b013ad", "title": "Easton: Zidon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A fishery, a town on the Mediterranean coast, about 25 miles north of Tyre. It received its name from the “first-born” of Canaan, the grandson of Noah (Gen. 10:15, 19). It was the first home of the Ph"}, {"id": "card_n_6df852add6ba", "title": "Easton: Magic", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews seem early to have consulted the teraphim (q.v.) for oracular answers (Judg. 18:5, 6; Zech. 10:2). There is a remarkable illustration of this divining by teraphim in Ezek. 21:19-22. We read a"}, {"id": "card_n_f412f364f873", "title": "Easton: Child", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word has considerable latitude of meaning in Scripture. Thus Joseph is called a child at the time when he was probably about sixteen years of age (Gen. 37:3); and Benjamin is so called when he wa"}, {"id": "card_n_14cbb577e31e", "title": "Easton: Moabite Stone", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A basalt stone, bearing an inscription by King Mesha, which was discovered at Dibon by Klein, a German missionary at Jerusalem, in 1868. It was 3 1/2 feet high and 2 in breadth and in thickness, round"}, {"id": "card_n_fc8307aaf1f1", "title": "Easton: Tiberias", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city, the modern Tubarich, on the western shore of the Sea of Tiberias. It is said to have been founded by Herod Antipas (A.D. 16), on the site of the ruins of an older city called Rakkath, and to h"}, {"id": "card_n_5284f333a082", "title": "Easton: High priest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Aaron was the first who was solemnly set apart to this office (Ex. 29:7; 30:23; Lev. 8:12). He wore a peculiar dress, which on his death passed to his successor in office (Ex. 29:29, 30). Besides thos"}, {"id": "card_n_ca7c5314c056", "title": "Easton: Siloam, Tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only Luke 13:4. The place here spoken of is the village now called Silwan, or Kefr Silwan, on the east of the valley of Kidron, and to the north-east of the pool. It stands on the west slope"}]}